Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19

vibrating, put lis adroit hand upon tn,
keys and changed the painful inhar
mony into glorious cadence. Their
Bach turned and gave salutstion to ;ht
host who had invited him.
MORAL DIsCORD THE WORST.
But The worst Of all discords is moral
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man.
what must they be to perfect God
People try TO define what sin is. II
seems to me that sin is getting out OF
harmony with God, q disagreement
with His holiness, with His purity,
with His love, with His commands, our
will clashing with His will, the finite
dashing against the infinite, the frail
against the puissant, the created
against the Creator. If a thousand
musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-
piston and trumpet, and violincello,
hautbois and trombone, and all the
wind and stringed instruments that
eve gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee
should resolve that they should play
out IT tune, and put to the
rack, and MAKE The place wild with
shrieking and grating, and raspIng
sounds, they could not make such a
PANDEMoNIUM
AS that which RACES in a sinful soul when
God listens to the play of its thoughts
passions and emotions-discord life
long discord, maddening discord. The
world pays more for discord than il
does for High prices
have been paid for music. One man
gave two hundred and TWENTY-FIVE dol
lars to hear the Swedish songstress in
New York and another six hundred
and twenty-five dollars to hear her in
Boston, and another six hundred and
fifty dollars to hear her in Providence.
Fabulous prices have been paid for
sweet sounds, but far more have been
paid for discord. The Crimean war
cost one billion seven handred million
dollars, and orr American civil war
over nine and a half billion dollars,
aud the wal debts of professed Chrs-
tan nations are about fifteen billion
dollars. The world pays for this red
ticket, which admits it to the s~aturnal-
is Of broken bones, and death agonies,
and destroyed cities. and ploughed
graves, and crushed hearts, any amount
OF money Satan may ask. Discord {!
Discori!
THE SONG THAT IS TO BE RESUMED.
But | have to tell you hat the song
that the morning stals sSng together,
at the laying of the worlds corner
stone is TO be resumed again. Mo-
zart's greatest overture was composed
one night when he was several times
overpowered with sleep, and artists
say they a tell the places in the mu-
sic where ne was falling asleep, and
the places where he awakened. So
the overture of the morning stars,
spoken OF in my text, has been asleep.
but 1t will awaken and be more grand
~ rendered by the evening stars of the
worlds existence than by the morning
stars, and the ve9pers will be sweoter
than the mathis. The work of all good
men and women, and of all good
churches, and all reform associations
is TO bring the race back to the origi-
nal harmony. The rebellious heart 10
be attuned, social life to be attuned,
commercial ethics to be attuned, hemi-
spheres 10 be attuned. But by what
force and IN what wayP
In olden times the choristers had a
tuning fork with two prongs, and they
would strike il on the back of pew
or music rack, aud put it to the ear,
and then start the tune, and all the
other voices would join. In
HoDERN ORCHESTRA
the leader has a complete instrument,
rightly attuned. and he sounds that,
and al the other performers tune the
keys of their instruments to make them
correspond, and sound the bow over
the string, and listen, and sound out
over again, until all the keys are screw
ed TO concert pitch, and the discords
melt into one great symphony, and the
curtain hoists, and the baton taps, and
audiences are raptured with Schu-
mann'S Paradise and the Peri" or
Rossini's ''Stabat Mater" or Bach's
Magnificent" in ID, or Gounod's IRE
demption."
Now, our world can never be attuned
by IN imperfect instrument. Even a
Cremona would not do. Heaven has
ordained the only instrument, and it is
made out OF the wood of the cross, and
rhe voices that accompany it r inn
ported voices, cautatrices Of the first
Christmas night, when heaven seren
AIDED Jhe earth with: "Glory to God in
the highest and on earth peace, good
will to men Lest we trust too far
of, and get lost in generalities, we had
better uegin with ourselves, got our
own hearts and life in harmony with
the eternal Christ. Ga, for his al
mighty spirit to altune US, to chord
our viii with His will. 10 modulate our
life with His life, and bring us into
unison with al that is pure, and self
sacrificing and heavenly. The strings
of our nature are all broken and twist
90, and the bow is so slack it cannot
evoke anything mellihuous. The in
strument made for heaven TO play on
has been roughly twanged and struck
by influences worldly and domestic.
. master hand of Christ, restore this
split, and fractured, despoiled, and IN
strong nature until first it shall wall
vut for our sin and then trill with di-
Tina DsrdOn.